Right now it's not practical to expect every school district will have a qualified Japanese or Arabic teacher to provide that.

We'll see what we need to do to address it. It all happened so quickly.

Every job is a job that we're going to celebrate. But we think this has been too long in coming. The weather is getting warm and the construction season is getting ready to start in an election year, and the governor is getting ready to make up for three years of mismanagement on roads.

Contrary to their claim of no regulation on bottled water, there is a common-sense permit process that doesn't harm businesses.

The education a child receives in high school is only enhanced by the preparation they get in the early grades. And technology is becoming important in that preparation.

The life science industry is doing well in Michigan, one of the few, and it is succeeding without lifting the ban on cloning stem cells or creating and destroying embryos.

What we attempted to do today was put some more common sense and responsible legislation on the table through the legislative process as opposed to the ballot process to avoid having a very damaging constitutional amendment.

Having the law enforced will have much more impact than the resolution.